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David Meltzer. Welcome to the Man of War podcast. It is an honor to have you on.

It is an honor to be here. And I'm super excited to serve a community that obviously is aligned, not only energetically, but genetically with me.

Awesome. And love it. Love it. All right. So just for our audience, a little bit of input on who you are just getting a nice background.

I love to have my guests introduce themselves.

Sure. It's hard or difficult to introduce oneself when you live with a learned lesson of radical humility, but I'll talk in the context of the worlds that I've come from.

I was born into a world of not enough single mom.

Single mom, six kids, five boys and a girl who worked two jobs packed my dinner in a paper bag in between the jobs made us consider education, the priority in a family.

And that served me extremely well to learn the model of happiness that I have, which is to enjoy the consistent every day persistent without quit pursuit of my own potential.

Now, I had one problem in that world of not enough is I believed I was a victim. I believe that everything happened to me.

I believe that money was the only thing missing from my life because I had extraordinary siblings and an extraordinary mom.

And I felt loved. And the only time there was unhappiness in my life, although we were challenged financially was when we were challenged financially.

I thought logically, hey, if the only times we're not happy is we're challenged financially, I'm going to be rich and I'm going to take away that and money will buy me love and it will buy me happiness.

And so I moved from that world when I graduated law school to be a millionaire nine months out of law school by selling internet, even though everyone told me the internet was a fad.

And I was like, this glia told me nobody could do research on the internet. You needed books. I'm just giving people a timeframe of 1992. I know they have the same thoughts today about crypto or blockchain.

I'm just telling you 92 people thought the same way about the internet. And I took a leap of faith to believe in myself to sell the internet 92 and by 95 we sold the business for $3.4 billion.

So now I lived not in the world of not enough as a victim, but I lived in this world of just enough for me. And you hear people all the time saying the world doesn't happen to you. It happens for you.

Well, I learned that that's not even good enough. There's still scarcity in a world where you're buying things to be happy more things to be happy different things to be happy.

You're buying things you don't need to impress people you don't like. And as my career evolved from that extraordinary exit into the Silicon Valley, raising hundreds of millions of dollars by the time in 1999 when I was turning 31 years old, I was married to my dream girl from the fourth grade.

I lived in a home that I dreamed of forever. I owned everything I wanted to own, and it was the first touch of emptiness in my life.

It was the beginning, the red flag that maybe I was running Samsung's phone division by the way. So even in a professional capacity, I had a greater job that I ever dreamed of. And here I was unhappy.

As I learned about the world of for me a scarce world, a trade for everything, including giving I would give to receive not understanding giving is not a trade or a negotiation.

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